12:28 AM,
Oct. 22, 2013

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The Register?s Editorial

If you want to be a police officer or a deputy sheriff in Iowa, it's likely you will spend 14 weeks living and training at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy at Camp Dodge, near Johnston. The academy provides basic and in-service training for law officers, dispatchers and jailers working for police departments and sheriff's offices in Iowa.

The Law Enforcement Academy was created in 1967 with a stated mission of "professionalism through training." It's now up to Gov. Terry Branstad to ensure that the people responsible for training these law officers are, in fact, behaving like ...